vulnerability

Docker Desktop: CVE-2023-1802: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 6, 2023
Added
Nov 3, 2025
Modified
Nov 3, 2025

Description

In Docker Desktop 4.17.x the Artifactory Integration falls back to sending registry credentials over plain HTTP if the HTTPS health check has failed. A targeted network sniffing attack can lead to a disclosure of sensitive information. Only users who have Access Experimental Features enabled and have logged in to a private registry are affected.

Solution

docker-desktop-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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